My cat only licks gravy from wet food. How to keep her hydrated?

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My cat is a picky eater. I've tried feeding her so many different types of food and she has settled on Blue Buffalo dry food. As a kitten I tried feeding her high quality wet food but she only ever wanted fancy feast gravy lovers. For over a year now she's been fed just that but over the last few weeks she's only been licking off the gravy. I want her to eat wet food as well because I know that's how they keep hydrated? What should I do? I tried to add water to her dry food and she didn't eat it. Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | spayed | 1 year and 9 months old | 10 lbs

Dr. Strydom, DVM · Accepted Answer

You can try some other type of canned food. Sometimes their tastes change and they decided they don't like what they had before. Cats can be picky. The other way to increase water consumption is to get a drinking fountain. Many cats like to drink from running water and will actually drink more if running water is constantly available. I would suggest you try this. Petco (or any large pet store) has a wide variety or drinking fountains: https://www.petco.com/shop/SearchDisplay?categoryId=&storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&sType=SimpleSearch&resultCatEntryType=2&showResultsPage=true&searchSource=Q&pageView=&beginIndex=0&pageSize=24&fromPageValue=search&searchTerm=drinking+fountain Hope this helps. Best wishes!

My cat only licks gravy from wet food. How to keep her hydrated?

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